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[Commlist] New Journal Announcement: Digital War

Tue Feb 19 13:02:44 GMT 2019




We are delighted to announce the launch of an innovative, interdisciplinary new journal: /The Journal of Digital War/

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Editors-in-Chief: Prof. Andrew Hoskins (Social Sciences, Glasgow University) and Dr. William Merrin (Media Studies, Swansea University).


Website:https://www.digital-war.org <https://www.digital-war.org/>


Follow us on Twitter: @DigitalWarJnl


/The Journal of Digital War/ will be published three times a year by Palgrave Springer and the call for submissions will go live in Spring 2019.


Digital War is understood as the ways in which digital technologies and media are transforming how wars are fought, experienced, lived, represented, reported, known, conceptualised, remembered and forgotten.


This is an emerging field whose importance is increasingly recognised and which has had a significant impact upon all aspects of contemporary politics, society and culture. It is a field that is global in nature, highly sensitive to contemporary developments and interested in ongoing technological changes and their impact.


Digital War will be A4 in format and will include a significant number of original images.


The journal brings together*key, intersecting subjects *including:

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*Media and Journalism*: digital war reporting, photojournalism and film-making; social media and war, including their use by governments, militaries, soldiers and civilians; the role of technologies such as the smartphone and apps; the public experience of and participation in warfare; Wikileaks and leaking; fake news (intentional and unintentional spreading); digital imagery and graphics.

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*Military Technologies and Computing*: digital technologies, systems and weaponry; drones (and other unmanned systems); Cybersecurity; Cyberwar; Informational warfare, propaganda, and Psyops; electronic warfare; intelligence and counter-insurgency (COIN); military use of simulations, virtual reality and augmented reality; wearable technologies, cyborg enhancements and ‘smart’ weaponry; posthumanism; artificial intelligence (A.I.); robotics and lethal autonomous systems; and other emergent technologies with military implications such as nanotechnology.**

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*Art*: political, aesthetic, critical, legal, ethical, experimental, algorithmic and multimedia interventions in war and conflict.

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*War Studies*: including the theorization of war and position papers on contemporary war and the future of warfare and its challenges, including training, preparedness and doctrine.

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*Politics and IR*: key issues around terrorism and digital technologies; surveillance and preventative measures; cybersecurity and the critical infrastructure; digital civil wars and protests; the role of hackers and ‘hacktivist’ groups such as Anonymous; ‘weaponization’, namely that transformed from something that has no prior political-military purpose; 4chan, trolling and emergence of political troll-warfare.

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*Social and Cultural Studies*: popular representation of digital war in videogames and science-fiction; politics of the digital versus the politics of the analogue; the means of connection/disconnection between digital and non or extra digitalized practices of warfare.

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*Geography*: regional issues around warfare; global war; spatial experience and control; the temporalities of warfare; decolonial/digital coloniality debates.

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*Law*: Representations of conflict within the legal frameworks of international law; new forms of evidence gathering and war crime documentation; human rights; forensic architecture.

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*Memory and History*: issues around digitalisation; digital and organizational remembering and forgetting; education; museums and the archives of war; digital curation; battlefield archaeology; military and public records; commemoration and memorialization in videogames and interactive media, and access and searching.

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*Media Archaeology*: the historical and material genealogy of the digital in previous mediatic platforms and power/knowledge apparatuses.


The website includes news of upcoming events, as well as a blog.


The first post is by William Merrin on ‘The UK’s Plans for Drone Squadrons: What Does Gavin Williamson Mean?’ at,https://www.digital-war.org/blog/2019/2/13/the-uks-plans-for-drone-swarm-squadrons-what-does-gavin-williamson-mean-by-william-merrin

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